‘for seamless manual downshi s, you can’t beat heel and toe’

T HE CAR PARK AT OUR HOTEL HAS TAKEN ON THE role of a truck stop. It’s early Monday morning and what would ordinarily be a sleepy nook behind a retail park in southeastern France has become a temporar

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It has been a hectic season for the Stovebolt Special: 11 hillclimb weekends, two hillclimb schools, and 3000 rapid road miles getting to and from them. And one serious breakage. That was sorted in ti

It must have gone on for 30 minutes. A heated debate choosing the winner of PCOTY in a cafe in Malhada Quente. The truth is, we all knew the outcome. It had become apparent early on. The Kimera EVO37

WE’RE REALLY MOTORING NOW, ON THE fastest part of the track approaching a hairpin turn. Above the sound of the Aston DB12’s howling V12, my passenger, Pascal, shouts: ‘Don’t brake, let the car do it!’

THE PLAN WAS TO TAKE EIGHT cars to 2025’s evo Car of the Year. They’d be the very best cars we’ve driven during the last 12 months; the cars that made us smile, thrilled us and engaged us. The cars th